Doc Talk Podcast With ‘Porcelain War’ Directors Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev Before They Head To The Oscars
deadline.comIt is one of the sad ironies of war that even as it lays waste to countries, conflict on that scale can lead to great works of cinema.
The brutal civil war in Syria resulted in several Oscar-nominated documentary features – Last Men in Aleppo and The Cave, both directed by Feras Fayyad; Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki; and For Sama, directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
The war in Ukraine, too, is being documented powerfully by nonfiction filmmakers: the Oscar-shortlisted In the Rearview, directed by Maciek Hamela; the Oscar-winning 20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov; and now the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Porcelain War.
On the new edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, Porcelain War directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev discuss their film, which won the DGA Award on February 8 and is being honored with a screening at The Hague on Thursday before an audience of diplomats.
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